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…2-News College is hard. Snacks help. Get FREE delivery. Start your 6-month trial, no cost to you amazon.com/UofMichigan 20 — Wednesday, November 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com …

…Emotions were high Tuesday as people headed to the polls. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainty about what the future may hold, University of Michigan students voting in Ann Arbor reported feeling that their voices matter now more than ever. Despite pushes for voters to use absentee and vote-by-mail avenues, some students said they preferred to vote in person. Michigan election law changed drastically in 2018 ...…

…The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Fall 2020 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. If you would like a current copy of the paper mailed to you, please visit store. pub.umich.edu/michigan-daily-buy-this-edition to place your order. ERIN WHITE Managing Editor ekwhite@...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 3 More than 50 people proudly wearing “I voted early” and Biden- Harris stickers congregated in front of the Electrical Workers Local 252 building in Ann Arbor to hear from Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential candidate. The stop was one of two in Michigan on Sunday for Emhoff, who was in town to launch a canvassing event....…

…Should we do this again? University of Michigan students and administrators are asking that exact question about the current hybrid semester ahead of the upcoming decision on whether to bring students back to campus in the winter semester. Unlike the decision on the fall semester, which was announced in June during a state and nationwide lull in COVID-19 cases, the pandemic is headed in the wrong direction. The United States ju...…

…The ideal vacation, Paris, remains a special place for many aching for a life of romance, buttery croissants and artful architecture. The French language seen as poet- ry, the streets of France idealized and the air romanticized as every- one hopes to become entranced by Paris and France’s overall allure. Emily in Paris is the embodiment of that glamorization as Netflix’s carefree dramatic comedy stars Lily Collins as an American ...…

…When you look at this image, what do you see? Do you see the large animal-like figure that is front and center? The uncivi- lized behavior portrayed by the figure? What about the small innocent-like characters in the back? The presence of all these factors makes this image the definition of the destruc- tion that arises from the pres- ence of any implicit bias held in society, and in particular, the Angry Black woman ste- reotype. Th...…

…Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 7 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion YOUR WEEKLY ARIES If you can keep calm in the face of provocation, Aries, his can be an exceptional week for your career. Teamwork shows you in a good light, so don’t neglect your colleagues. It’s not always about going it alone or being top dog. AQUARIUS GEMINI Allow yourself to listen to your inner instincts. Your intuition is strong, and your mind ...…

…Opinion JENNA SCHEEN | CONTACT CARTOONIST AT JSCHEEN@UMICH.EDU Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 8 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A fter the stay-in-place order went into effect Oct. 20, the University of Michigan made the New York Times. The “Leaders and Best” had contributed to a full-on outbreak of COVID- 19 in Washtenaw County, and the undergraduate students were potentially to blame. University President Mark Schlisse...…

…W eight Stigma Awareness Week happened recently, and its call for everyone, not just those in larger bodies, to understand why weight stigma is important moved me to use this platform to portray the issue. And what better example of how weight stigma has hurt those in larger bodies than its infiltration into the COVID-19 risk factors. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asserted that people categorized as “obese...…

…10 — Wednesday, November 4 , 2020 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THE B-SIDE: COMFORT The reasons that we’re still watching television They put TVs in hospital rooms. You don’t think twice about it while you’re there, probably because you’re distracted by whatever reason you’re there in the first place. The wall-mounted, boxy television set perches in the corner of a bare room reeking of antiseptic and bodily fl...…

…Arts Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 11 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com When I describe myself as being “extremely online” to my friends, they usually agree — they too love memes and spend hours on Twitter. Trying to clarify what I mean gets messy. It usually turns into some form of me reciting my own version of Bane’s quote from “The Dark Knight Rises”: “You merely adopted the internet; I was born in it, molded by it.” If I wa...…

…Arts michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily 12 — Wednesday, November 4, 2020 Why my mom can’t stop rewatching TV’s ‘Friends’ My mom has watched “Friends” start to finish so many times that everyone in my family has lost count. She’s on an agonizingly slow journey to recovery from a stroke a few years ago that has left her without energy to do very much other than watch TV most days. This year I’m pretty sure I saw her blast th...…

…I n the fall of 2017, I stood nervously in front of the printers in Hatcher Graduate Library, observing the passersby and waiting for a hundred cop- ies of full-sheet fliers to print out. Amo, Cole and I — the three founding members of the University of Michigan’s first free speech advocacy group, Michigan Open Discourse — had written and designed these fliers for distribution across cam- pus. On them in big, bold, capitalized let- t...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 14 — Wednesday, November 4, 2020 statement G aoyuan Liu’s suggestion to compare answers was reject- ed outright after a difficult math exam. “Don’t involute yourself,” her classmates told her. Gaoyuan Liu, an LSA transfer student who then studied at one of the most prestigious universities in China, never felt the ubiquitous presence of the word “involution” in her and her peers’ lives...…

…L egend says a posse of so- rority girls today looks like this: designer ten- nis shoes, various shades of hon- ey-highlighted hair, a cluster of pastel-toned sweatshirts, and the quintessential sweatpants don- ning their sorority letters. While the American soror- ity system initially positioned itself as an emblem of tradition and female “excellence” when it originated over a century ago, it has since been held to signifi- cant le...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com statement Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 16 Dear U-M, give me a break BY LEAH LESZCZYNSKI, STATEMENT COLUMNIST H alf of my 2020 Spring Break was spent on the beach. The other half was spent watch- ing the dizzying news coverage on the CO- VID-19 outbreak alongside the beginning of Trump’s failure to combat it. Though forever clouded by my grandparents’ fearful rush to return to their seclude...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 17 With his waiver approved, Chaundee Brown is finally ready to win Chaundee Brown leaned back in his chair and smiled. Since transferring to Michigan from Wake Forest in May, Brown has been grounded in a perpetual state of limbo. The status of his waiver — which would determine his eligibility for the upcoming season — loomed over his head. On Friday, ...…

…Rocky Lombardi and the Spartans stun No. 13 Michigan Merely two months ago, the Merely two months ago, the thought of college football at thought of college football at Michigan Stadium this fall felt like Michigan Stadium this fall felt like an impossibility. Even less plausible an impossibility. Even less plausible was the thought of the Wolverines was the thought of the Wolverines losing to Michigan State. losing to Michigan...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 19 Secondary exposed in loss Saturday afternoon in Ann Arbor, beneath a green gaiter that served to maintain his poker face, Mel Tucker wouldn’t reveal whether he intentionally designed a game plan to pepper Michigan’s cornerbacks with targets deep downfield. He didn’t need to. The proof was there for three hours Saturday. It resided outside the visiting loc...…

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…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 27, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM At about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, 12 people traveled to U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell’s Dearborn office to continue protests to urge Dingell to sign the Green New Deal. They were met with police blocking them from entering the building. After occupying U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell’s, D-Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti office for nearly ...…

…The Association of Public Land-Grant Universities’ 2019 innovation and economic prosperity award was awarded to the First Customer and Small Company Innovation programs. Both initiatives are part of the The University of Michigan’s Economic Growth Institute. Since 2013, this award has commemorated exemplary leadership and innovation in the fields of entrepreneurship and technological economic growth. Both programs aim to ...…

…After defining important and frequently misunderstood terms including sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, Sugar discussed the growing global awareness of inclusive fashion. “We’re seeing a lot of mainstream, high-fashion designers on the runway, designing for gender-equal clothing and non-gendered styles,” Sugar said. “This is important because … if we’re seeing the opening up of gender expressio...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, November 27, 2019 — 5 Shakespeare is remembered as the greatest playwright of all time. The greatest struggle with putting on Shakespeare now, though, is to make it fresh and relevant for audiences all over the globe. His narratives are geniusly concocted, but the vernacular more closely resembles rocket science than a light- hearted rom-com, which was how they were originally...…

…By Bruce Venzke and Gail Grabowski ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/27/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/27/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 ACROSS 1 Roster entry 5 Opens, as a car hood 9 Letter-shaped opening 14 Foundry by-product 15 Army outfit 16 __ squash 17 Long tooth 18 Will of “The Waltons” 19 Vinaigrette holder 20 First, Lu...…

…While families come together from far and wide to devour turkey, watch football and reluc- tantly talk politics, the Michigan men’s basketball team will be facing its fiercest competition to date at the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament. Hosted every year in the Ba- hamas, the tournament hosts a variety of college basketball’s historic programs in an ear- ly-season slugfest prime for early resume-building and testing weaknesses. This yea...…

…Sports 8 — Wednesday, November 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Last week, as students tailgated before Michigan’s game against Michigan State, Psi Upsilon fraternity draped a bedsheet out a window of their house. The ban- ner, ostensibly to offer up a roast of the Spartans, read: “You can’t touch us, @LarryNassar.” There are a lot of legitimate things to insult Michigan State about, starting with its on-field resul...…

…For the last time before her retirement in January, The Michigan Daily sat down for an interview with E. Royster Harper, the University’s vice president for Student Life. In the interview on Friday afternoon, Harper discussed IFC-affiliated fraternities recruiting freshmen against University policy, controversy surrounding the senior honor society Order of Angell, protests against the University’s sexual misconduct...…

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…“People around the country have seen local news diminish, from daily newspapers to weeklies,” Clemetson said. “Even if people aren’t specifically paying attention, I think it is something that people in communities have felt. We certainly have experienced that here in Ann Arbor, and it’s in communities across the country.” A gift from Ann Arbor entrepreneurs and philanthropists Dug and Linh Song funds the new oppor...…

…4B — Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily....…

…Tuesday, November 26, 2019 — 5B Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com As a video game critic, I’ve been exposed to more games than the average player. I play games that were masterfully crafted by the best in the industry. Games that are lethally boring and riddled with bugs. I play fast-paced games that test my reaction speed. I play slow games that require critical thinking. Violent or passive, indie or big-budget, I’v...…

…6B — Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Kurt Krauss ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/26/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/26/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 ACROSS 1 Cigar residue 4 “West Side Story” sides 9 Cul-__: dead-end street 14 Versatile truck, for short 15 Head off 16 Oven emanation 17 T...…

…Tuesday, November 26, 2019 — 7B Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ men’s hoops off to Bahamas for first road trip of the season Three weeks into this watershed season, the Michigan men’s basketball team sits at 4-0. The Wolverines’ performances have varied from a late-game scare in the opener to Appalachian State to two blowouts against lowly mid-majors Houston Baptist and Elon, with a solid victory against ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 8B — Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Sports men’s Soccer advances to sweet sixteen PHOTOS BY MADELINE HINKLEY/Daily …

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 25, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Tuned and ready Michigan dispatches of Indiana with ease, 39-14, officially sets its sights on bout with Ohio State next weekend. » Page 1B Faculty directors of the Semester in Detroit program, an initiative that allows University of Michigan students to study and intern with community- based organizations in th...…

…2A — Monday, November 25, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers RYAN, MARRY ME? puzzle by sudokusyndication.com DESIGN BY TAYLOR SCHOTT The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is avail...…

…Every now and then, there is an increase in awareness of mental health and wellness issues. These spikes in attention occur after events such as World Mental Health Day or a highly publicized incident of suicide. Thus, it’s extremely important to advocate for mental health but there are times when people fail to be compassionate or understanding. On Nov. 12, writer and singer Summer Walker canceled most of her North ...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, November 25, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited an...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, November 25, 2019 — 5A This past Wednesday evening, Hill Auditorium hosted the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal as part of the group’s 2019 United States tour. According to the program, Orchestre Métropolitain began in 1981 with a mission “to share its passion for symphonic music and make it accessible to all.” Today, the Orchestre Métropolitain is the premier orchestra in Quebec and ...…

…6A — Monday, November 25, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts By Ed Sessa ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/25/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/25/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, November 25, 2019 ACROSS 1 Pole on the Pequod 5 Conclude from evidence 10 Auto loan figs. 14 Smoothie berry 15 Land, in France 16 Talk over tea 17 *Soccer ref’s f...…

…Allison Engkvist & Miles Macklin / Daily Design by Jack Silberman The night Nico Collins fused talent with production Monday, November 25, 2019 | michigandaily.com Nico Collins took his time walking off the field Saturday night. Helmet off, Collins peered up at a cluster of visiting Michigan fans. He heard a few “Let’s Go Blue” chants mixed in with “Beat Ohio,” a smattering of yells rendering both incoherent. Collins looked up ...…

…2B — November 25, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com M oments like these are the reason Michi- gan went out and got Shea Patterson in the first place. Why they brought him to the Big House to toss around snowballs two winters ago and why his visit to a basketball game was treated like a parade. He is not, never was and never will be the savior of this program — and those who expected as such placed an ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Monday, November 25, 2019 — 3B Michigan tops Hoosiers, 39-14 BLOOMINGTON — Five minutes in, and the game already seemed like a nightmare. Indiana running back Stevie Scott punched the ball in the end zone and here it was, prophecies of a “trap game” coming true right in front of Michigan’s eyes, the monkey that is the Hoosiers still on its back. Then, the Wolverines got the ball. ...…

…IN PRINT AND ONLINE NOVEMBER 26, 2019 4B — November 25, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Wolverines get past Wright State in penalties, 5-4, advance to Sweet 16 The Ultras had moved from their resident bleachers and congregated at one end of the field. With each penalty kick came screams and gasps from the stands which were filled to capacity. As junior midfielder Marc Ybarra lined up to take his shot, thou...…

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 22, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Ypsilanti is following Ann Arbor’s lead in drafting a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2035. On Tuesday, Nov. 19, the Ypsilanti City Council decided to draft a plan on how the city could become carbon neutral in 15 years. The draft plan will be presented on March 31, approaching the 50th anniversar...…

…Callie Rouse, CGIS health and safety assistant, and Annie Haroun, director of Active Minds, a student-led mental health advocacy group, hosted a panel at the Hatcher Graduate Library Thursday to discuss the effects of study abroad on mental health. Among University of Michigan students, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, academic concerns and relationships are the leading mental health concerns, the panelists said. Rouse...…

…“I had the opportunity to spend last summer interning at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City,” Nandkumar said. “Learning about other cultures, other people and the politics of other countries has always been something that’s really interesting to me. I’m focusing in the Ford School in diplomacy and international security issues, and I hope to go into that field.” When asked for advice on how students interested in internatio...…